Email Font

[ZOR]

Is there any way to control the font that gets used in emails from PHP or is it down to the mailserver. I am having lots of problems trying to align columns in emails. Thanks

 

[lgarner]

You can control it in the HTML portion of the email. If there's a text part, that will be controlled by the email client.

 

[ZOR]

Many thanks, its in the body of the email I am filling. I am putting in text from session arrays. I have spent ages going into where gets into the varaiable putting in white space to try and line up as best as I can. I need to look at how people
get submission forms back in one piece, although they might not be concerned with column alignment. Regards

 

[sleipnir214]

If you want prettily-formatting emails, you need to send HTML-formatted emails. There is no other way that is platform-agnostic.

The PHPMailer class (

http://phpmailer.sourceforge.net)

is very good at making it easy to send complexly-formatted emails.

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[BabyJeffy]

Why deliver your emails with such complex layout? I would suggest something as simple to implement as:

<form_field_name_1>:
<form_field_value_1>

<form_field_name_2>:
<form_field_value_2>

As so on.

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Jeff



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[ZOR]

Many thanks. Re PHPmailer, I do not have PHP on my PC, and cannot get access to the webhost server to do:-

Copy class.phpmailer.php into your php.ini include_path.


Does that rule me out of being able to install/use? I have seen you refer lots of people to the product and would like to give it a go.

Thanks Jeff, it was going through my mind to layout in sequential order, I might go down that road if I cannot find a quick formatting solution. Reason for not jumping to it is it might end up lengthy emails. There again the postage is free. I'll see and let you know. Regards

 

[sleipnir214]

If you don't have PHP on your PC, why doest this thread exist in the PHP forum?

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[ZOR]

I am building a site, using PHP, on a hosted site.

 

[sleipnir214]

Then you should be able to write the PHPMailer class files to the hosting server as easily as you do your own files.

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[lgarner]

cannot get access to the webhost server to do:-
Copy class.phpmailer.php into your php.ini include_path."

For your own use, just copy the phpmailer file to your own directory. Putting it in the include_path just allows all PHP scripts to include it without specifying the path.

 

[ZOR]

Thankyou Igarner, I will persue that.